6 August, 2021
28 July, 2021
2020/2021 annual review highlights ‘widening cracks’ in local authority systems for handling complaints
19 July, 2021
Commission to look at whether social care decisions can be meaningfully challenged if they fall short, and if existing ways to do so are accessible and effective
16 July, 2021 Open access
16 July, 2021 Open access
15 July, 2021
Blanket policy meant some people in the Bexley area were paying over the odds, and more than the costs incurred by the council
15 July, 2021
9 July, 2021
10 years on from the Dilnot Commission report, Care and Support Alliance calls on the government to 'fix social care, once and for all'
6 July, 2021
Bill introduces a new legal duty for the Care Quality Commission to review and assess performance of local authorities in discharging their 'regulated care functions'
21 June, 2021
New research by Age UK highlights growing demand for care services with ‘chronic underfunding’ failing to keep pace
17 June, 2021
17 June, 2021
Failure to account for individual circumstances went against Care Act 2014 guidance and appeared to show a fettering of discretion
16 June, 2021 Open access
Public Accounts Committee calls for end to 'decades of neglect' for adults needing care
16 June, 2021 Open access
Trend is ‘unsustainable’, and shows why the government must publish its plans for social care as a matter of urgency, says Association of Directors of Adult Social Services
7 June, 2021
Minister confirms that funding will be delivered in two phases, with £1.75 million for emergency respite care, followed by £1.25 million to develop a short breaks fund
1 June, 2021
Andrew Lennon against NHS Highland and Another [2021] CSOH 56
27 May, 2021
Statement to Holyrood setting out government's post-election priorities also confirms that legislation should be introduced in first parliamentary session, with the service up and running by the end of the Parliament
26 May, 2021
Bill introduced to make provision for a publicly owned body to provide insurance for homeowners to cover social care costs
17 May, 2021 Open access
J and L's (acting by their mother) application and in the matter of a decision by A Health and Social Care Trust [2021] NIQB 23
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